Thought I had fixed this iBook to take on my vacation as my MacBook Pro is broken. Looks like the iBook graphics chip is still messed up. Here’s the iBook in the process of being repaired. That square thing is the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) and the source of the problems. It overheats, comes loose, [...]
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NVIDIA – Saving the environment by saving energy…via failing video output
Yeah, that’s what my MacBook Pro 15″ LCD screen looks like with the laptop running. It looks pretty much the same stunning quality on an external monitor. Seems my laptop is another victim of the NVIDIA chipset bug. All of a sudden my laptop would not output video to either the built-in LCD or [...]
Camera Preview-Review
Left to right: Nikon Coolpix 4500, Canon PowerShot SD800IS, Sanyo Xacti HD2 I got a new camera and this time it’s a video camera that can also take photos, as opposed to a camera that can sometimes shoot video. As you can see from the photo above my new camera (on the far right) is [...]
Welcome to the suck
You know your life is going to suck for the next few hours when you insert your 4GB CF memory card into a reader and this shows up on the screen. Clicking on the card proceeded to freeze the laptop, subsequent attempts at mounting the card normally via USB reader (two different readers) and a [...]
iPhone – iChat = Wait and see
So Apple finally unveiled the iPhone, or maybe it’s really called the Apple iPhone since they have that apple logo before the name on their site since Cisco (via Linksys) has an iPhone announced last month. One of the disappointments is that it doesn’t include iChat on the phone. I assume this is so Cingular, [...]
Microsoft Zune released…world yawns.
Microsoft just released their Zune iPod killer player. But as usual they miss the mark. It’s like they’re sitting next to the smartest kid in the room during the SAT and cheating by looking at their answers but purposely answering some questions wrong to not get caught. I mean, if you’re gonna cheat then cheat. [...]
See the Cat? See the Cradle? – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I tried to take a photo with my Canon PowerShot s500 camera and this was the result. A funhouse mirror image except it ain’t so fun. Looks to me like the CCD chip inside the camera is broken or has worked loose somehow. My apologies to the cat. Another shot, this time of something flat. [...]
Digital-Shmidgital
My latest camera aquisition from St. James Thrift Store. $5 for this puppy…sweet! I’ve got some future plans for this camera. It’s funny in that I never got into 35mm photography while in high school, way too complicated with all that depth-of-field business and shutter speeds. So I had a Polaroid which allowed me to [...]
Microworkstation
Had to do some email today away from my computer. Although this combo seems perfect with fast wireless internet, a bluetooth wireless keyboard and email client it has one problem…me. I type too fast for the bluetooth keyboard to keep up so it drops letters and has some other glitches. If you’re thinking about getting [...]
Dual Personality
Apple just released Boot Camp for their new Intel Macs that allows you to boot up in either Mac OSX or Windows XP. Jaws must be dropping over at HP, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, etc as you don’t need them anymore for your Windows hardware. Game over dudes, I expect Apple stock to move up a [...]
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